PhD Course (D.M.226/2021)
Agrifood and Environmental Sciences
COURSE SUMMARY
The PhD programme in Agrifood and Environmental Sciences aims to train researchers of international standing, capable of designing and conducting research activities in the fields of agricultural, food, and environmental sciences. Students acquire knowledge and develop skills in a multidisciplinary research area that includes modern agriculture and, more broadly, the human interaction with the environment.
The programme also aims to equip the participants with the expertise and skills necessary to actively contribute to the economic, technological, and scientific development of the agrifood and environmental sectors, with a focus on collective wellbeing and health, the conservation of natural resources in view of the circular economy, the mitigation of environmental impacts, and the sustainable use of resources.
The PhD programme is established in collaboration with the PhD programme in Civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering at DICAM, and is run in collaboration with Fondazione Edmund Mach-FEM.
The course in brief
OVERVIEW
05 – Biology
07 – Agricoltural and Veterinary Sciences
08 – Civil Engineering and Architecture
14 – Political and Social Sciences
AGR/01 Agricultural economics and rural appraisal
AGR/03 Arboriculture and Fruitculture
AGR/05 Forest management and silviculture
AGR/07 Agricultural genetics
AGR/09 Agricultural machinery and mechanization
AGR/11 General and applied entomology
AGR/12 Plant pathology
AGR/15 Food science and technology
AGR/20 Zoocolture
BIO/03 Botanica ambientale e applicata
BIO/04 Fisiologia vegetale
BIO/05 Zoology
BIO/07 Ecology
CHIM/01 Analytical chemistry
CHIM/10 Food chemistry
FIS/06 Physics of the Earth and of the circumterrestrial medium
GEO/04 Physical geography and geomorphology
ICAR/01 Hydraulics
ICAR/02 Hydraulic and marine contructions and hydrology
ICAR/03 Sanitary and environmental engineering
ING-IND/24 Fundamentals of chemical engineering
IUS/03 Agri-food law
SPS/07 General sociology
SPS/11 Political sociology
VET/06 Parasitology and animal parasitic diseases
To apply for the PhD programme, you must have:
- a specialist or master's degree or a degree issued under the previous regulations;
- an equivalent academic qualification obtained abroad (master's degree) that allows admission to the PhD program in the education system or in the country of issue and that is considered suitable by the selection committee for the sole purpose of accessing the course.
Students selected by special committees for specific international mobility programmes in which the University of Trento participates may also apply.
For the 42nd cycle of this PhD program, 9 positions funded by scholarships are available, 7 of which are topic-related.
The breakdown of the available positions and the details of the funded positions are specified in the admission call.
Information on the topic-specific scholarships is available in the attached file.
More information on topic-specific places can be found in the attachment Abstract.
The admission call indicates:
- admission requirements;
- deadlines;
- admission procedure;
- details of the funded positions;
- availability of scholarships.
APPLY
The selection procedure is entirely online.
Consult the call to get all the information needed to register.
Complete the online form by 4:00pm (Italian time) on 28 May 2026.
SELECTION
